About Richard

Son of two teacher/world-travellers: high school in Ethiopia, Canada since late 70s, Berklee College, 15 years as a full-time travelling guitar player, 5 years in teaching/teacher education, 12 years webmaster/conferencing/collaboration admin now "Electronic Education Specialist" designing and implementing learning "situations."
Jan 05

Getting set up

This is to be home base for my explorations into learning and teaching with, about, because of, and even in spite of technology. Years ago, after already investing a good chunk of my youth in my ample but ultimately less than extraordinary musical talents I set out to become a classroom teacher. But a funny thing happened on the way to the schoolhouse: the personal computer. And at 30-something I took to figuring it out in a way I hadn’t approached anything since my first electric guitar.

Of the many similarities between those approaches some things stand out: Continue reading